JOB DESCRIPTION: CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOTHERAPIST
HOURS: 3 days per week
SALARY: Dependant on experience
LOCATION: The Bessborough Centre (will include travel within Co. Cork)
RESPONSIBLE TO: ChiPPs Clinical Lead (Senior Clinical Psychologist)
The Bessborough Centre, in collaboration with Springboard Project
Cork, are seeking to recruit a child and adolescent psychotherapist
for a new mental health, and early intervention, service, specifically
for children in foster or residential care between the ages of 5 and
**Apply on the website**.
The service, called ChiPPS (Children?s Intervention and Prevention
Pathways), aims to provide a range of treatment and assessment
approaches tailored to children who have experienced developmental and
attachment trauma through a stepped-care prevention and intervention
model. The service will have multidisciplinary focus and draw on a
wide range of allied health professionals, including Occupational
Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Psychotherapists and Play
Therapists.
The successful candidate will take a key role in the provision of
assessment and formulation of the needs of children in care, as well
as providing both direct and indirect therapeutic input. (S)he will
engage with children/foster carers/professionals to achieve positive
mental health outcomes for children, build or restore placement
stability and/or enhance key relationships in the child?s
family/support network.
We are committed to embedding an evidence-based culture of
trauma-informed care and therapeutic practice and therefore keen to
assess the effectiveness of our service. As such, service evaluation
will be an integral part of the role.
The Bessborough Centre is trauma-informed and equal opportunity
employer. We offer competitive salary package as well as benefits to
include, enhanced maternity leave, pension contribution scheme,
flexible working hours, internal and externally provided training
opportunities and competitive annual leave entitlement.
The successful candidate will be expected to:
* To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary therapy team,
providing a high quality, psychotherapy to clients, their families or
carers offering advice via telephone or video conference, email
support, consultations, assessments and treatment to children and
their parents/carers
* To support psychological practice within the team through
consultation, supervision, formulation and training /education.
* To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and
to exercise professional responsibility for the planning and
prioritising of own workload and the assessment, treatment and
discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service?s operational
policies
* To compile comprehensive assessment and treatment reports and any
other reports as required in connection to the children and their
parents with whom they have been working.
* To monitor assessment and treatment reports for quality assurance
purposes and ensure they are disseminated on time.
* Promote and contribute to an effective team ethos.
* Promote equality, diversity and Human Rights in working practices
by developing and maintaining positive working relationships, ensuring
that colleagues are treated fairly and contributing to developing
equality of opportunity and outcomes in working practices
* Contribute to developing and maintaining equality of opportunity
in working practices by complying with legislation and organisational
policies. Advise colleagues about equality, diversity and human rights
policies and procedures and ensure they are followed
* To attend court, if required, as an expert witness.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
QUALIFICATIONS:
* ? IACP (or equivalent) accredited qualification in psychotherapy
EXPERIENCE:
* Experience of providing tailored therapeutic support to children
who have experienced developmental trauma and their carers is
essential
* DDP level 1 & 2 and/or Theraplay Level 1 & 2 are highly desirable
ESSENTIAL SKILLS:
* Excellent skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally
and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information
to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues
both within and outside the service.
* Skills in the provision of supervision and consultation to
individuals and teams
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and
non-professional group
* Skills in carrying out service audits
* Excellent time management skills and an ability to meet deadlines
and prioritise workload.
* Exceptional organisational skills, particularly in administration.
KNOWLEDGE:
* An understanding of developmental trauma, attachment, infant mental
health, child development and neurodiversity, child and adolescent
mental health issues
* An understanding of working therapeutically with children who have
experienced developmental trauma and their carers/adoptive parents.
* An understanding of theory and research in the field of
developmental trauma, attachment and therapeutic interventions with
this population
* An understanding of the use of the creative arts in a therapeutic
setting.
* An excellent understanding of safeguarding children issues as well
as an understanding of care and control, notification procedures and
equal opportunities, data protection and general good practice.
TO APPLY
To apply submit your CV and covering letter to Human Resources
Department, Bessborough Centre, Blackrock, Cork or email: **Apply on
the website** by 5pm on Wednesday 8th December **Apply on the
website**. Interviews will be held week beginning **Apply on the
website**th December and can be accommodated virtually if necessary.
We need : English (Good)
Type: Permanent
Payment:
Category: Health
